UFO fears over mysterious solar visitor ‘not behaving like a comet’ | World | News
The Pentagon is refusing to release UFO files on a strange interstellar object passing through our solar system that some scientists believe may be alien. The 3.5-mile-wide cosmic visitor, known as 3I/ATLAS, was initially thought to be an unusual comet that would break up as its orbit brought it closer to the sun.
However, despite its closest pass to the Sun on October 29, 3I/ATLAS’s structure did not melt or exhibit a large debris cloud as expected. Harvard professor Avi Loeb The images in question from 3I/ATLAS, taken on November 11, show that it remains a single body and there is no evidence of the expected disintegration.
The new images, obtained by astronomers David Jewitt and Jane Luu, show two huge jets of material emerging from the object, one pointing toward the sun and the other away from it, he wrote.
The latest images were taken from the Scandinavian Optical Telescope in Spain. A strong wind of solar radiation should indicate debris from a comet pointing away from the sun, but in the case of 3I/ATLAS there is an unexplained 620,000-mile-long jet of material pointing toward the sun like a “thruster.”
Another tail, 1.86 million miles long, is moving away from the sun, and skeptical scientists suggest the unexplained jet may just be an optical illusion.
But Professor Loeb said: “Technological thrusters that direct their exhaust towards the sun will accelerate away from the sun.
“This post-perihelion maneuver could be used by a spacecraft aiming to gain speed rather than slow down, thanks to gravitational support from the sun.”
The professor also said that the amount of material expended by 3I/ATLAS did not match the size of the object if it were a normal comet. Mail Online reports that it calculated that the three-mile-wide comet would need an icy surface at least 14 miles wide if it formed from CO₂ ice, and 32 miles wide if 3I/ATLAS vented water ice into space.
On Wednesday, Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the House Oversight Committee, which investigates reports of UFOs and aliens, announced that she had been denied access to classified information about 3I/ATLAS by the Pentagon.
But he told NewsMax: “I believe it’s a comet passing through and so I don’t think we’ll be making contact with any non-human intelligence yet, but the verdict is still out on what it is.”
NASA released more information about 3I/ATLAS tonight (Thursday). He said: “Astronomers have classified this object as interstellar due to the hyperbolic shape of its orbital path. It does not follow a closed orbital path around the Sun.
“Tracing the orbit of 3I/ATLAS into the past clearly shows that the comet originated from outside our solar system. The size and physical properties of the interstellar comet are being investigated by astronomers worldwide.”
Prof Loeb, who supported his research amid some opposition online, said 3I/ATLAS “retained its integrity and did not split into too many pieces”.
He added: “This raises a new 3I/ATLAS anomaly that needs to be explained by those who want to push 3I/ATLAS anomalies under the carpet of conventional knowledge about solar system comets, rather than considering alternatives.
“As Albert Einstein said, ‘Knowledge is understanding that the street is one-way; wisdom is looking both ways anyway.'”
